Concord
Firewalk Studios · Sony Interactive Entertainment · 2024 · Hero shooter
Did the studio keep supporting this game after launch? This page is the evidence.Shut down after 14 days with full refunds — honest about the failure, but a product abandoned in a fortnight is still abandoned.
01Score breakdown
Five categories, 20 points each, 100 total. Full method on the methodology page.
02The evidence
Concord launched August 23, 2024 to roughly 25,000 sales and a Steam peak under 700 concurrent players. Firewalk shipped one small stability patch within 48 hours, then Sony took the game offline on September 6 — 14 days after launch — and issued full refunds on every platform, including physical copies. Backend SteamDB activity in September–October briefly suggested a free-to-play revival, but on October 29, 2024 Sony permanently sunset the game and closed Firewalk Studios. The shutdown was handled with unusual honesty and generosity; the product itself was abandoned.
- Full automatic refunds on all platforms, including physical retail — the right call, executed without making players fight for it.
- One stability patch shipped within 48 hours of launch, then support ended entirely when servers went dark on September 6, 2024.
- The three-season roadmap (Season 1: The Tempest, October 2024 onward) was abandoned in full — zero promised content ever shipped.
- Firewalk Studios was closed outright on October 29, 2024, ending any possibility of recovery or a free-to-play relaunch.
03Sources
04Audit record
- Launch date
- Aug 23, 2024
- Evidence coverage through
- Oct 4, 2026
- Methodology
- v1.0
- Audit confidence
- Medium
- Why this confidence
- The full arc is documented by official Sony statements and Tier 2 press, but internal decision-making and exact patch contents have gaps.
- Score band
- Failing (Tier F)